Most climate scientists are reluctant to attribute a specific weather event to global warming. But NASA's Dr. James Hansen has released a paper linking the heat waves in Moscow and Texas to human-induced climate change.

Catching our eye in climate news this morning are the effect of the sun on global warming, a primer on Siberian methane leaks, some new data on US greenhouse gas emissions, and commentary on proposals to move NOAA to the Dept of Interior (a bad idea).

Here's what's caught our eye in climate change news this morning, beyond the obvious in the headline: The famine in Somalia (yeah, it's still happening), the wife of an MIT climate researcher has been targeted in hate mail, and more...